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2013 Pulitzer Prizes

The recipients of the 2013 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, April 15. The full list of award winners and finalists is available on the official Pulitzer website.

The prize for fiction was awarded to The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson, an exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart. Also nominated as finalists in this category were: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, by Nathan Englander and The Snow Child, by Eowyn Ivey.

Sharon Olds won the poetry prize for Stag's Leap, a collection of poems about her divorce that the Pulitzer release describes as an examination of "love, sorrow, and the limits of self-knowledge." Stag's Leap also won last year's T.S. Eliot Prize. Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Collected Poems, by the late Jack Gilbert and The Abundance of Nothing, by Bruce Weigl.

The prize for history was awarded to "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, by Fredrik Logevall, a balanced, deeply researched history of how, as French colonial rule faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down a road toward full-blown war. Also nominated as finalists in this category were: The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675, by Bernard Bailyn and Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History, by John Fabian Witt.

Tom Reiss won the biography prize for The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, a compelling story of a forgotten swashbuckling hero of mixed race whose bold exploits were captured by his son, Alexander Dumas, in famous 19th century novels. Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece, by Michael Gorra and The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, by David Nasaw .

The prize for general nonfiction was awarded to Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, by Gilbert King, a richly detailed chronicle of racial injustice in the Florida town of Groveland in 1949, involving four black men falsely accused of rape and drawing a civil rights crusader, and eventual Supreme Court justice, into the legal battle. Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo and The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature, by David George Haskell.

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